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  Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 58′ Fiberglass Shrimper, Twin 3406B Cat’s, Izusu 8 KW Genset

  Specifications, information and 7 photos click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 11:51 Related Read More »

• Pissed off Towed Up Sea Lion Flings Russian Fisherman, Attacks Boat Dog. This is real entertainment, folks!

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• Convictions Under the Fisheries Act, Gaspe-Lower St. Lawrence Area

  QUÉBEC CITY, QUÉBEC–(Marketwire – March 22, 2013) – , Quebec Region, has released a list of fishers fined in February 2013 for various offences under the Read More »

• More from the first-ever Climate of Change conference in Portland Maine – Experts call for greater urgency in adapting fisheries management to climate change

  John Bullard, northeast regional administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries,  NMFS sees climate change as not just a cause for immediate alarm, but Read More »

• Hurricane Sandy stirs up trouble for NE fishing sector

  Hurricane Sandy did not spare New Jersey’s or New York’s fishing communities. Fishers are ready to venture out into the seas again soon, but nobody knows Read More »
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  Upstart FISH-NL Turns Up the Heat on Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union!

  Things got a little heated outside the Fish, Food and Allied Workers office in Corner Brook when some 250 harvesters from around the west coast marched Read More »

• Sea stories beckon large audience as Fishers hook the crowd with talent (they can very taleted!)

  Wet Dog Cafe was full to the brim with diners Friday night; there was a waiting list to snag a table. Waiters weaved in between patrons, Read More »
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  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for December 26, 2016

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 15:14 Related Read More »

• Does anyone really think drilling on the East Coast is a good idea? – Deep Panuke fire caused by missed inspections

  An interim safety report says a failure to do annual maintenance inspections aboard the Deep Panuke offshore natural gas project was the root cause of an Read More »

• Equipment from Foxy Lady II found in Saugus, Hull

  A rescue pod, marked Foxy Lady II on the side, was discovered in a Saugus marsh Tuesday evening shortly before 5, around the same time the U.S. Read More »

• Commercial conch waterman arrested for felony tampering, reckless endangering, numerous fisheries charges

  NEAR BOWERS BEACH, Del. (July 28, 2015) – DNREC Division of Fish & Wildlife Natural Resources Police officers arrested a New Jersey-based, Delaware-licensed commercial waterman July Read More »

• Salmon trollers get winter season in Southeast Alaska

  The good news for commercial salmon trollers in Southeast Alaska is they will have a winter season for king salmon starting up next month; the bad Read More »
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  Star of ‘Deadliest Catch’ meets privately with utility workers at Robarts Arena

  Edgar Hansen, one of the stars of the Emmy-winning “Deadliest Catch” documentary series, met with utility workers who are restoring power in Southwest Florida Monday at Read More »

• $1.3-million for new safety gear coming for 600 N.S. fishermen

  The Gulf Nova Scotia Fleet Planning Board is buying $1.3-million worth of safety equipment for 600 fishermen, it announced Friday. The equipment purchase includes 1,200 immersion Read More »

• Stronger restrictions imposed on elvers, frustrating fishermen – Regulators also will keep a new quota system

  The decision affects the livelihoods of the hundreds of people working in the fishery, which has recently been the second-most valuable fishery in the state, behind Read More »

• Public weighs in at Board of Fisheries meeting in Soldotna

  Fishermen and the fisheries-inclined turned out by the dozens Tuesday for an open hearing before the Board of Fisheries to air their concerns on a host Read More »

• Rolls-Royce to Design, Equip Canadian Stern Trawler

  The shipbuilding company in Norway has received an order from a Canadian company for a shrimp stern trawler to be designed and equipped by Rolls-Royce, whose Read More »

• NatureVest – When Dogs and Pigs Breed

  The Nature Conservancy, the worlds largest ENGO, and JP Morgan the worlds largest bank have created  NatureVest, a multi billion dollar fund that essentially carry’s out Agenda Read More »

• Black market lobsters cost man $94k

  A WA man has been fined and banned from lobster fishing for two years after selling hundreds of rock lobsters on the black market. Graham Thomas Read More »

• Kuskokwim fish wars heat up again as silvers enter the river

  Kuskokwim River villagers say they accepted early summer fishing restrictions that cost them a chance at treasured king salmon in order to boost the struggling run. But Read More »

• Monster shark fishing tournaments face growing pressure to reform

  It’s 4am at the dock on Block Island, a teardrop-shaped New England vacation spot situated off Rhode Island, and tempers are fraying among fishermen competing in Read More »

• Sambro group holding fundraiser for Miss Ally families

  The Chronicle Herald – One fishing community is trying to help another. The Ladies of Sambro will host a Fishermen’s Pride Night on April 13 at the Read More »

• Dewey Hemilright, Commercial fisherman from Wanchese, N.C., One of Six 2015 Class Of ‘Busch Heroes’

  Busch, the beer with a time-honored tradition of rewarding hard-working men and women who “earn it,” announced today six new men and women as its new Read More »

• Officials across Cape Cod estimate repairs from ice floes damaging infrastructure will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

  As temperatures warmed on Cape Cod this week, officials began to calculate the damage that ice has done to docks and pilings. At the same time, Read More »
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  Iceland may become first nation ruled by ‘pirates’

  The small island nation of Iceland may soon be the first modern country ruled by pirates. Not swashbuckling bandits with eye patches, but political pirates bent Read More »